Rare Earth Metals Mining

The US coal industry's future could be to mine metals for

Burning away hydrocarbons in coal leaves behind ash that is rich in metals, which can be extracted using chemical processes. Metal-rich parts of the total rock removed from the earth during coal mining can be manually separated out. Acid mine drainage can selectively remove rare-earth metals from coal....

Rare-earth element Wikipedia

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REE Rare Earth Elements Metals, Minerals, Mining, Uses

Rare Earth Elements (REE) are becoming increasingly important in electronic devices used in the defense, alternative energy, and communications industries. Minable ...

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The Rare-Earth Crisis MIT Technology Review

On the eastern edge of the Mojave Desert, an hour's drive southwest of Las Vegas in Mountain Pass, California, lies a 1.4-billion-year-old deposit of cerium, neodymium, and other metals that is the richest source of rare-earth elements in the United States....

Mountain Pass rare earth mine Wikipedia

The Mountain Pass deposit is in a 1.4 billion year old Precambrian carbonatite intruded into gneiss, and contains 8% to 12% rare-earth oxides, mostly contained in the mineral bastnsite. Gangue minerals include calcite, barite, and dolomite....

The US coal industry's future could be to mine metals for

Rare-earth metals ThinkGlobalGreen

Rare-earth metals are used in computer hard drives, digital cameras, cell phones among many other things. They are also key to "green" technology such as energy-efficient light bulbs which use europium and yttrium, while hybrid car batteries and wind-power turbines use neodymium....

Extracting rare-earth elements from coal could soon be

Why rare-earth mining in the West is a bust High Country

As for American rare-earth mining, the future looks bleak. In addition to the fully operational Mountain Pass, there are only four rare-earth deposits officially in development: Bear Lodge in Wyoming, Bokan in Alaska, and La Paz and Round Top in Texas. None is anywhere close to commercial production....

The false monopoly: China and the rare earths trade

The Strange Second Life of America's Only Rare Earth Mine

The era of Rare Earth mining at Mountain pass was born. The Mine That Powered Modernity. In some ways, "rare earth metals" is a misnomer. The rare earth elements are chemical elements as well, 17 elements in all, which often exist embedded in rocks or minerals....

The worst place on Earth BBC

In 1950, before rare earth mining started in earnest, the city had a population of 97,000. Today, the population is more than two-and-a-half million. There is only one reason for this huge influx of people minerals....

Rare Earth Metals: Very Different from Gold Mining Gold News

Rare-Earth Market Foreign Policy

In China, which mines 89 percent of global output, toxic wastes from rare-earth facilities have poisoned water, ruined farmlands, and made people sick. Beyond high-tech gadgets, rare earths play a critical role in national defense, enabling radar systems and guided missiles....